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Boarded to Shanghai two new destined cranes of dock to the VTE of the port of Genoa
The means of raising will reach in from Liguria port of call November
August 30, 2012
Today to Shanghai 20 two new destined cranes of dock to the container have been boarded on board of the Zhenhua ship Voltri terminal Terminal Europe (VTE) of the port of Genoa, where they will arrive at the beginning of the next November. The two new cranes will have a sbraccio maximum of 48 meters (44,8 beyond the fenders of the dock) and will be able to serve wide ships until 18 rows of containers. The height will be of 40,6 meters over the sea level (38,0 meters from the dock). The raising ability will be of 50 tons under spreader single lift attendant and of 65 tons under spreader twin lift attendant.
Voltri Europe Terminal has emphasized that the arrival of the two new cranes confirmation the VTE leadership on the market and the interest of group leader PSA and its partner in continuing to invest on Genoa and in Italy. While last month the genoese terminal has enlivened a traffic of the container pairs to 113.800 teu that it represents the new absolute record of volumes enlivened in a single month from VTE. The precedence record was recorded in April 2012 with 108.303 teu. In the first seven months of the 2012 increment of the traffic regarding the period January-July 2011 it has been of 13%.
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